Poem by Robert Herrick

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All things decay with time: The forest sees
The growth and down-fall of her aged trees;
That timber tall, which three-score lustres stood
The proud dictator of the state-like wood,
I mean the sovereign of all plants, the oak,
Droops, dies, and falls without the cleaver's stroke.

1. On Himself (Lost to the world; lost to myself)
2. To Sapho
3. His Teares to Thamasis
4. Upon Julia's Ribbon
5. The Rock of Rubies, and the Quarry of Pearls

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